[Air-L] Only the initiates will have the secrets revealed

[Alexandre Hocquet]

Dear Internet Researchers,
My apologies for shameless self-promotion and for possible 
cross-postings : if you're interested in open science and its complex 
relationship with software, I will talk about this topic next Wednesday :

"Only the initiates will have the secrets revealed" : The politics and 
materialities of open science
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Käte Hamburger Kolleg "cultures of research" lecture series
in Aachen and [online](https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/lecture-series/)
Wednesday, January 26th, 5pm CET

Open Science has been pervading the scientific world in the last decade. 
It is a buzzword, and a promise. First, through Open Access, as a combat 
against corporate publishers, then through Open Data as a mean to 
enhance sharing practices, and more recently, and more timidly, through 
the promotion of Open Software. Strikingly, Open Software in science has 
attracted until now less interest even though Open Science itself is 
rooted in 1980s free software principles.
This talk focuses on software in science and its diversity of 
entanglements with openness. Software has been "eating" the world and 
science is no exception. From Excel to complex "big" scientific 
instruments, via Photoshop or molecular modelling software suites, the 
vast majority of software used in science is not open, and a vast 
majority has nothing to do with computer science. When software is open, 
it is very often naively represented as a solution to all issues in 
science, especially reproducibility. Yet, even open software is full of 
epistemic issues, from governance to consistency, and the consequences 
of its influence on the rest of open science are often misunderstood, 
especially regarding licensing policies.


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Alexandre Hocquet
Archives Henri Poincaré & RWTH c:o/re
https://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/membre-titulaire/alexandre-hocquet
https://khk.rwth-aachen.de/fellows/prof-alexandre-hocquet/
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